My cousin Matthew forwarded me this reference.
I was sure that it would just be more of the rubbish that pervades this
topic but decided to have a quick look to confirm my suppositions.
The not quite smiling face of Craig Venter that heads the article told me
immediately that this is, after all, the real thing.
We stand on the bridge at Khazad-dûm. The not distant enough drums sound
their doom-doom call and it's not certain, yet, if Venter is himself the
Balrog or if he is soon to conjure it from the abyss. As he's one of my
select group of (anti?-)heroes I can't complain all too much.
If you can't make head nor tail of that wait a few years and it will be the
only news going :-).
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/synthetic_genome?currentPage=all Russell
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